Russia confirmed 6,234 new COVID-19 cases in a day, bringing the country’s official number to 765,437, Report says, citing RIA Novosti.
According to the Operational Headquarters of the country, 6 234 positive coronavirus cases were detected in 84 regions, including active 1,522 (24.4%) without clinical manifestations.
So far, Russia has recorded 765,437 cases (+0.8%) of coronavirus infection in 85 regions.
Over the past day, 124 more fell victim to coronavirus, with 12,247 deaths during the entire period. Since the beginning of the pandemic, 546,863 people have recovered from the virus -7 490 in the last 24 hours.
The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) emerged in late 2019 in China's Hubei province, and the virus has spread to over 200 countries and territories since then.
On February 11, the WHO officially named the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) as COVID-19, and on March 11, declared it a pandemic.